Community Surveys: Community Fund Grants $ 640,000 in Grants; STAR golf tournament for the benefit of the disabled

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Join STAR to support neighbors with developmental and intellectual disabilities for this family-friendly short course. There will be beer, soft drinks and free snacks on the course and the event will offer prizes for the closest to the pin, the longest ride and the low gross team as well. a raffle. The golf will play from 15h to 17h. followed by a grilled dinner buffet from 5pm to 7pm. with bar of money. Non-golfers and family members can join golfers for the buffet with special dinner tickets. Tickets for golf and barbecue can be purchased at www.starct.org. For sponsorship opportunities, contact Peter Saverine, Director of Philanthropy at 203-846-9581 ext. 302 or [email protected]

"We were very excited last year to have a crowd of sold-out golfers who were joined by an equal number of family members and friends. friends for the barbecue. The setting at Silvermine in September is idyllic and we are very grateful to the golf club staff for their gracious reception of our fundraiser, "said Katie Banzhaf, chief executive of STAR

Tickets for golf are $ 150 per person, $ 500 per group of four and $ 125 for youth under 18 years of age. Family members / non-gamblers can join the barbecue buffet for $ 40 per person or $ 90 for a family of three or more. All proceeds go to STAR, Inc., Lighting the Way's programs and services for infants, children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Darien, New Canaan, Norwalk, Weston, Westport, Wilton and Stamford [19659012] Halstead, a leading residential real estate brokerage firm in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, announced that 45 of its agents have been named to the list of the top real estate professionals of 2018 REAL Trends America, a price ranking produced by REAL Trends and sponsored by Adwerx

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July 12th, Darien Community Fund l The Grants Luncheon Award for Local Non-Profit Leaders and Volunteers review of Community Fund grants. This year, the Community Fund has chosen to award $ 640,000 in major grants to 23 local non-profit organizations – the highest amount invested in the past five years and nearly $ 70,000 more than the $ 6,000. 39, last year. This is in addition to the $ 45,000 grants awarded this year.

For more than 65 years, the Community Fund's mission has been to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged people in Darien, Norwalk and Stamford by providing grants for a wide range of needs. three funding objectives: basic needs, youth success and self-sufficiency. With more than 50 volunteers from Darien, the Community Fund carefully examines grants and site visits every year.

For the first time this year, the Community Fund awarded three bonuses, an idea from the 2018 Community Strategic Planning Meeting. We selected three organizations, one in each of our funding objectives, to receive an additional $ 3,000 to recommend appropriate measures, best practices, collaboration and innovative solutions to the new needs of our community. These awards were presented to Building One Community, Mid-Fairfield County Children's Counseling Center and person-to-person.

In addition to grants, the Community Fund also donated more than $ 10,000 to the Community Youth Fund, and $ 14,000 in small grants to five local organizations (the Connecticut Institute for refugees and immigrants, support services in English, fuel exploitation, safe jobs and tiny miracles)

Patrick Nelson and Caitlin Keady both Darien, graduates of Bates College on May 27.

residents of Darien Margaret Murphy and Jacqueline Reardon graduates Eleanor Kelley, Kateri Martin and Sarah Raymond were named to the list of the Dean of 2018 semester of the University of Alabama in May